Over the past decade, dissidents across the globe have appropriated the visage of Guy Fawkes, the infamous insurgent who tried to blow up the British Parliament in 1605, warping the once-reviled ...

Just days after the Paris terrorist attacks on November 13, the iconic mask of Guy Fawkes appeared – again – in two videos released in French by the hacktivist techno-social collective ...

The paradox of masks — now being deployed by federal agents in pursuit of undocumented immigrants — is how they reveal as ...

Anonymous: How the Guy Fawkes mask became an icon of the protest movement The group has become increasingly notorious through attacks on organisations including the CIA, Ku Klux Klan and PayPal ...

The origins of Guy Fawkes masks are explored, revealing their cultural and political significance in modern society.

This week in Slate, Rob Walker writes about the surprisingly recognizable branding of hacker group Anonymous. As Walker notes, the 4chan-based group’s public face has become the Guy Fawkes mask ...

Guy Fawkes masks have been popular method in underground circles since the release of the 2006 film "V for Vendetta." PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty But what does it all mean?

A ‘disturbing’ thriller film with a star-studded cast is now available to stream on Netflix. With a cast made up of Hugo ...

The iconic version of the Guy Fawkes mask owes its popularity to the graphic novel and film V for Vendetta, which centers on a vigilante's efforts to destroy an authoritarian government in a ...

Guy Fawkes masks, immortalized in the movie "V for Vendetta", have become a global symbol of protest and anonymity through the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Arab Spring. "The Guy Fawkes mask ...

Why did a hacktivist collective like Anonymous repurpose the image of Guy Fawkes for its ubiquitous masks? A scholar looks at how a 17th-century English villain became the face of resistance.